About 250 Ford Australia workers will lose their jobs at the car manufacturer's Broadmeadows and Geelong factories, it has been revealed.

The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union have confirmed to Daily Mail Australia these redundancies were a long time coming, with Ford flagging jobs were at risk earlier this year as car sales decline.

It comes just over a year after Ford announced the two factories would close its doors in 2016.

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On Friday, 230 employees will clock off for the last time at Ford's Victorian factories

The Victorian factories employ more than 1000 workers and about 250 of them will be gone by June 20.

The job losses come after Holden and Toyota announced in December and February respectively they would both cease Australian operations by 2017.

It follows six years of struggle for the auto industry since Mitsubishi closed its Adelaide plant in 2008.

January 2012: The Federal and Victorian governments hand over $53 million as part of a $103 million bailout package for Ford, with the car manufacturer forking out the rest after seeing the worst Falcon sales in more than 50 years

March 2012: Signs of trouble for Holden brew as 40 jobs are axed at the Port Melbourne engine plant

November 2012: Holden cuts 180 jobs at its factory in Elizabeth near Adelaide, South Australia

April 2013: The job losses continue at Holden with 500 factory and engineering jobs from Elizabeth and Melbourne saying goodbye

May 2013: Ford announces it is ending its Australian operations with plans to close by 2016

August 2013: Federal Government fronts up $200 million to sure up operations in the auto industry as Toyota serves up $123 million to help its down under operations

December 2013: Holden follows Ford's lead and signals it will end its time on Australian shores by 2017

February 2014: Toyota does the same and sets an identical deadline year as Holden, which will affect about 2,500 jobs at its Altona plant in western Melbourne

June 2014: Australian Manufacturing Workers Union confirms Ford Australia would be handing out about 250 forced redundancies

'I’ve had a couple of discussions with Ford management and they’re upset too, but it’s a fact of life and there’s nothing we can do about it.'

Mr Difelice said the car manufacturer cited declines in sales of its Ford Territory and Falcon ranges as the reason for the job losses.

'The Falcon is the one that has taken the most hits on the marketplace,' he said.

'There would have been around roughly 1,000 Ford Falcons sold this time last year and now it would be around the 690 figure.'

Mr Difelice said Ford had helped employees look for other jobs by holding career fairs to help those who were made redundant.

'Some have taken the opportunity to pick up a job with a new employer,' he said.

'If there are opportunities rising out of the jobs fair that will suit individual then they will take it instead of Ford having to tap (people on the shoulder) and forcibly make them redundant.'

So far about 50 people have put their hand up for a redundancy package as the June 20 deadline looms.

Declines in sales of the Territory and Falcon are to blame for 230 forced redundancies and 50 voluntary redundancies

The Productivity Commission, who were tasked with looking into the auto industry, tabled its preliminary findings report and found car manufacturers in Australia were not meeting the annual production of 200,000 to 300,000 vehicles to make them financially viable.

The 2013 report said Australia's new car market was 'small by global standards'.

'It is highly competitive, to the benefit of Australian consumers, but is fragmented,' the report said.

'Top selling models enjoy sales of only a little over 40,000 vehicles a year.'

The commission also said jobs in the industry decreased by 40 per cent between 2006 and 2013, with only 44,000 employed in 2013.

The job losses at Ford follows announced closures of Australian manufacturing operations by Toyota and Holden